32C Channel Plugin

[madmaxmiller]

People are looking for a plugin that does colour the sound and in context of today's advertising language it's fair to expect people to expect that from the 32c channel strip plugin..

Did Harrison ever claim the plugin would colour the sound? I think they say it emulates the EQ characteristics of the 32C desk but not that it adds colour or saturation.
This appears to be the fallacious premise upon which Worrall's video and the whole subsequent shitstorm of discussion is based.

Gary has made that clear in his statement. The goal in the analogue world was to keep it as clean as possible. The fact that we are used to "dirt" is because the technolgy couldn't provide the clarity then and overcome the tape noise floor at the same time.
If you go into a symphony concert in a good hall you will indulge in clear sound, you don't want overloaded instruments except as an effect.
This "analogue" fashion has all become a bit hyped and people set analogue = distorted = good. It's now expected that an "analogue sounding" software has a distortion unit, no matter the context. They'll put "colour" onto everything.
It's like with spices: a little bit of the right spice here and there goes a long way, but putting your favourite spice generously onto everything is yuk.

My personal opinion is that it's easy to dial in a good tone with the Harrison EQs: Mixbus32C, AVA32C and also Mixbus. It's also easy to achieve the appropriate channel compression without separately controlling every parameter - for extreme control which you may need on a small number of channels there are plugins. I really do love the Input/Output section with the big meter in the AVA plugin

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